[AT] OT NuGrape, back to tractors

Thu May 31 11:18:18 PDT 2007

Sure, Ron.  I literally have lost track of how many tractors have come 
through my shop in the process of restoration.  Sometimes they're for me, 
other times they're paid jobs for customers.  But I have two "keepers" that 
will probably still be mine until I die.  One of those is a trailer queen 
that just goes to shows, but the other is a work tractor that is slowing 
emerging from being headed for a salvage yard.  I'm forever looking for a 
parts tractor and have bought several over the years, but when I start 
looking carefully, there is just too much good stuff left on them to even 
start cannibalizing.  Those are the ones that I put back in mechanically 
sound condition and sell to others who want to do the cosmetic stuff of 
straight sheet metal, a good paint job, and new decals.

If you want to have fun sometime, try restoring a sickle bar mower that has 
been buried in the dirt in Georgia for 20 years or so.  It's one thing to 
clean it up and give it a coat of paint.  It's something else to have it cut 
grass again.

Larry

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <RonMyers at wildblue.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 9:30 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] OT NuGrape, Beeman's Pepsin Gum etc (Country Store)

> Larry I wouldn't have said anything but 48 e-mails on grape soda sickening
> the stuff taste awful to start with.
> Lets get this back to tractors with an occasional off topic.
> How many of you guys actually own an old tractor that you are restoring or
> have restored. Not one that you picked up and got it running and drive it
> around the house once a year.
>
> Please
> Ron
>
>> But Ron, we're talking about old tastes whether it's summertime drinks,
>> old
>> tractors, farming styles, or just nostalgic childhood memories.  In my
>> book,
>> they're very similar things.
>>
>> Larry
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: <RonMyers at wildblue.net>
>> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
>> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 12:26 AM
>> Subject: Re: [AT] OT NuGrape, Beeman's Pepsin Gum etc (Country Store)
>>
>>
>>>I thought that ATIS stood for antique tractors but I guess I was wrong.
>>> What in the "H" does Grape soda have to do with tractors anyway.
>>> No wonder everyone is leaving this list.
>>> Ron.
>>>
>>>> Chuck,
>>>>  It sounds like you're describing my great Grandparents general store
>>>> in
>>>> Southeastern Ohio. Stoneking (there's a name you never here anywhere)
>>>> General Store near Olive Green. I still have Grandpa's awards of being
>>>> a
>>>> long time Sinclair Gasoline dealer. I recall the great big cheese wheel
>>>> covered by glass. Rotating bin of nails sold by the pound. REAL Penney
>>>> candy. Coca Cola cooler with the bottles in water. I give a bunch for
>>>> the
>>>> big Coca Cola sign that was over the porch with his name on it. Thanks
>>>> to
>>>> progress and the Big Muskie it was destroyed. :(
>>>> Rob
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
>>>> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Chuck Bealke
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 12:22 AM
>>>> To: at at lists.antique-tractor.com
>>>> Subject: Re: [AT] OT NuGrape, Beeman's Pepsin Gum etc (Country Store)
>>>>
>>>> Mercy, Dean, I thought it was regulation that the delightfully frigid
>>>> bottles from those coolers had to be downed while wet or wiped on your
>>>> shirt
>>>> if you were under 13.  In the mid-50s, in such country stores in
>>>> Missouri
>>>> you might see a fetching likeness of a young Sandy Duncan on a painted
>>>> RC
>>>> Cola sign. Those stores were wondrous places - worn out floors, pipe
>>>> tobacco
>>>> in the thin cans (Prince Albert sold well),  Bull Durham in the white
>>>> sacks
>>>> with pull strings, Cracker Jacks with a real plastic toy, always some
>>>> new
>>>> candy or other snack, tube repair kits (like Monkey) and LOTS more.
>>>> There
>>>> was one I could hike across creek, fields and woods to reach about a
>>>> mile
>>>> from our farm, though I seldom had the coins, free time and permission
>>>> needed together.  Like most such, it had an outhouse best avoided in
>>>> July.
>>>> Oh yeah, gas was about a quarter a gallon, including - if you wanted to
>>>> wait, your windshield wiped, oil checked and maybe some news of
>>>> neighbors.
>>>>
>>>> *********** REPLY SEPARATOR  ***********
>>>>
>>>> On 5/29/2007 at 9:31 PM Dean Vinson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Ice-cold drinks in glass bottles, roger that.  Dad used to stop now and
>>>>>then with us kids at a dinky little gas station in Gavers, Ohio.  Old
>>>>>metal cooler in the corner, filled with pop bottles in icy water, with
>>>>>a faded red rag hanging right next to it so you could wipe off the
>>>>>bottle.
>>>>>
>>>>>Dean Vinson
>>>>
>>>>
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